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From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
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To: Amit Choudhary <amit2030@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/media/video/se401.c: check kmalloc() return value.
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 09:31:00 +0100
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Am Freitag, 9. März 2007 08:30 schrieb Amit Choudhary:
> Description: Check the return value of kmalloc() in function se401_start_stream(), in file drivers/media/video/se401.c.

Firstly, USB patches to the USB list.

Secondly, you've fixed an oopsable bug, but you also need to check
the return values higher up in the call chain.

	Regards
		Oliver